
1:1 Athlete Support
Whether you're an ambitious athlete looking to kickstart a long and successful career, a seasoned professional looking to maintain or enhance your performance, or perhaps an athlete who is struggling with a specific part of their performance and wanting to overcome it and reach new levels, we can help.
Athletes can utilise sport psychology for a huge range of reasons: to re-discover their enjoyment for their sport, to facilitate high performance more consistently, to perform under pressure and through adversity, or just to take the next step in improving their game. By using evidence based techniques, models, and frameworks, we can assist you with:
Sculpting Mental Resilience
Mental resilience is the ability to adapt, to difficult or challenging situations, while maintaining psychological wellbeing. Athletes should develop psychological strength to ensure they can remain composted, confidence, and focused even in the toughest of moments.
Enhancing Focus, attention and Concentration
Distractions are inevitable. But they do not need to dictate overall performance. With control over our focus and attention, we can maintain consistent performance even in chaotic or high pressure environments.
Performance Anxiety
Anxiety can sabotage performance if left unchecked. But anxiety doesn't need to be a detriment. By understanding and reframing anxiety, as well as using various coping strategies, we can mitigate the negative effects and use anxiety as a performance enhancer.
Performing Under Pressure
Pressure can cause significant detriments in performance, but it can also be a huge elevator of performance. Athletes can benefit from learning how to embrace pressure, using psychological skills to transform pressure into fuel for performing when it matters most.
Utilising and Optimising Motivation
Motivation is crucial in sport. But without the right attention, it can also be fleeting. By helping athletes understand and use motivation, not as a byproduct of sport but as a meaningful tool, we can help athletes pursue long-lasting performance and meaning.
Mental Skill Development
Taking your brain to its own kind of gym. Sport is not just physical, it is immensely psychologically demanding. Just as you do squats, pull ups, and sledge pulls in the gym, you can develop various skills to enhance your mental strength as well, building confidence, consistency, resilience, and more.
Managing Arousal, Stress, and Anxiety
Finding an optimal balance between intensity and control is difficult. But it is also so important for performing well. By managing arousal levels, controlling stress, or addressing anxiety, we can allow performance to flourish.
Regulating Emotions
Emotional control can make or break a performance, and sometimes, even careers. By understanding, processing, and regulating emotions, we can take back control and face adversity, decisions, and unexpected outcomes with composure and resilience.
Dealing with Setbacks
The life of an athlete is paved with adversity. This is unavoidable. Injuries, losses, slumps, duel careers, school work, personal stressors... this is life. But we do not need to be held down by adversity. Adversity is not a threat to our progress, it is an opportunity, a challenge, a speed bump to be overcome, becoming better than we were before in the process.
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If any of these resonated with you, or there is something else you feel you would like support with along these lines, let's have a chat about it and see if we are a good fit.